The Gift that We Are
...Everyone is a gift waiting to be received. All we have to do is open our bodies, hearts, and minds to receive each other... Excerpt from a journal entry, Karen Sella, 1993
I have gift. For a long time, I didn't know it. And for a long time after that, I discounted it because it is a gift that we all share---like air---and it seemed kind of dumb to offer a gift that everyone already has. Yet, people kept receiving it just the same. And they would thank me for it with much joy and gratitude---as if I had something to do with it, and I would kind of squirm inside with embarrassment and confusion. How do I accept thanks for something that isn't mine to give? Didn't they know that I wasn't offering anything to them that they didn't already have?
But we don't really have a choice when it comes to giving our gifts---even when we're not consciously giving, people are receiving just the same. Eventually, if we're lucky, some people acknowledge the gift in such a way that we can also acknowledge the gift. We become aware of the gift we are giving and become more readily able to give our gift---and that's the best gift we can give to each other---to receive each other's gifts in a way that illuminates the giving.
So that's how it happened. I discovered my gift which is not really mine when people mistakenly began attributing it to me. On various occasions, people kept commenting on my presence. They would thank me for my presence---saying that it made a difference in their lives and asking what I did to be "so present". I didn't know. I was just being me. I mean, I knew that I was present, but I didn't know how I was present in such a way that people noticed a difference. They would ask if I meditate or if I practice yoga. Yes and yes. But then, so did a lot of the folks who were asking.
And so it went. They would thank me, and I would squirm and wonder why did people keep commenting on my presence? And why did it mean so much to them?
After repeated occurrences of this phenomenon, I figured out why I was so uncomfortable with their gratitude. It was because it wasn't my presence that they were experiencing. It's ours---theirs---mine---everyone's. For some reason, they were just experiencing it more readily through being with me---and recognized it only as me instead of as themselves or as us. I began to wonder what was happening within me, within others, and all around us that contributed to this experience of Presence and I began to pay more attention to this Presence unfolding in our midst, within and without, betwixt and between, in silence, in solitude, in conversation, in relationship, at home and at work and at play. In short, for the last ten years or so, I became a serious student of Presence.
And I learned that It has much to teach. I began to understand what was happening within me and around me that contributed to people recognizing Presence within ourselves, within others, and beyond. I began to learn how to navigate the subtle realms of Being. And I discovered that, with practice, we could learn how to access Presence more readily---that it is possible in every moment to unwrap our very Being as the gifts we truly are and that in so doing we unite our small, relative beings in Being.
And that is my gift that is really our gift. Here is what I have to offer so far...
http://www.luminacoaching.com/ThePracticeofPresenceSpring2006.htm
I have gift. For a long time, I didn't know it. And for a long time after that, I discounted it because it is a gift that we all share---like air---and it seemed kind of dumb to offer a gift that everyone already has. Yet, people kept receiving it just the same. And they would thank me for it with much joy and gratitude---as if I had something to do with it, and I would kind of squirm inside with embarrassment and confusion. How do I accept thanks for something that isn't mine to give? Didn't they know that I wasn't offering anything to them that they didn't already have?
But we don't really have a choice when it comes to giving our gifts---even when we're not consciously giving, people are receiving just the same. Eventually, if we're lucky, some people acknowledge the gift in such a way that we can also acknowledge the gift. We become aware of the gift we are giving and become more readily able to give our gift---and that's the best gift we can give to each other---to receive each other's gifts in a way that illuminates the giving.
So that's how it happened. I discovered my gift which is not really mine when people mistakenly began attributing it to me. On various occasions, people kept commenting on my presence. They would thank me for my presence---saying that it made a difference in their lives and asking what I did to be "so present". I didn't know. I was just being me. I mean, I knew that I was present, but I didn't know how I was present in such a way that people noticed a difference. They would ask if I meditate or if I practice yoga. Yes and yes. But then, so did a lot of the folks who were asking.
And so it went. They would thank me, and I would squirm and wonder why did people keep commenting on my presence? And why did it mean so much to them?
After repeated occurrences of this phenomenon, I figured out why I was so uncomfortable with their gratitude. It was because it wasn't my presence that they were experiencing. It's ours---theirs---mine---everyone's. For some reason, they were just experiencing it more readily through being with me---and recognized it only as me instead of as themselves or as us. I began to wonder what was happening within me, within others, and all around us that contributed to this experience of Presence and I began to pay more attention to this Presence unfolding in our midst, within and without, betwixt and between, in silence, in solitude, in conversation, in relationship, at home and at work and at play. In short, for the last ten years or so, I became a serious student of Presence.
And I learned that It has much to teach. I began to understand what was happening within me and around me that contributed to people recognizing Presence within ourselves, within others, and beyond. I began to learn how to navigate the subtle realms of Being. And I discovered that, with practice, we could learn how to access Presence more readily---that it is possible in every moment to unwrap our very Being as the gifts we truly are and that in so doing we unite our small, relative beings in Being.
And that is my gift that is really our gift. Here is what I have to offer so far...
http://www.luminacoaching.com/ThePracticeofPresenceSpring2006.htm
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